Gofundme Created For Negligent Parents To Bury 3YO, Who Shot Himself With Father's Gun, Arrival Of Their New Baby

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This is from the gofundme ... which was created September 25th, 2025.... they only raised 265 dollars of the 5,000 they were requesting.

Please join us in lifting up the young Jackson family in love and prayer. They are grieving the unimaginable - the heartbreaking loss of their sweet 3-year-old son, Gionni. As Jacob and Madison walk through this devastating grief, they are also preparing to welcome their second child this October. What should be a season of joy and anticipation is now filled with both heartache and overwhelming challenges.

We are coming together to support them during this incredibly difficult time. Donations will help ease the financial burden of time away from work, daily expenses and preparing for the arrival of their new baby.

Most importantly, your generosity will allow them the space to grieve, heal, and focus on their family without added financial stress.

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The father was indicted...
Jan 2, 2026

Jacob A. Jackson, 22, of Spring Street in Struthers, was indicted Tuesday on charges of involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering in the Aug. 15 shooting death of his 3-year-old son, Gionni A. Jackson.

A narrative with the death certificate states Gionni died after shooting himself with his father’s gun in the family’s Spring Street home. The boy had just turned 3 five days earlier.

The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office carried out the investigation of the boy’s death at the request of the Struthers Police Department because a Struthers officer is Gionni’s grandfather.

Struthers police Capt. D.J. Aldish said shortly after the shooting that the incident involved an “unsecured firearm in a home. And the worst possible thing happened, and a child got a hold of it.”

The narrative states officers were called to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on Aug. 15 for a boy with a gunshot wound.

Aldish advised that the boy was at his home on Spring Street when he shot himself using an unsecured firearm. His father drove him to the hospital, and the boy died a short time later, the report states.

Both of the boy’s parents were home at the time the boy was shot but did not witness it, the report states.

Aldish reported that a loaded handgun was found near blood in a rear bedroom of the home. An autopsy was performed by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A coroner’s office investigator spoke with Jacob Jackson, who said he was getting ready to go to his mother’s house to retrieve his gun holster. About noon, he set his handgun on the dresser so he could use the bathroom. The dresser was about waist-high. Jackson reported that Gionni’s mother was doing her hair in the bedroom and Gionni was behind her.

Jackson said he was using the bathroom with the door open when he heard a pop and saw Gionni fall to the floor.

Jackson picked Gionni up and ran outside to get help. He flagged down a car to take them to the hospital, the report states.

A LifeTRANS ambulance report noted that on that afternoon, paramedics were called to a parking lot at Mathews Road and South Avenue in Boardman at 12:15 p.m. When they arrived, they found the boy without a pulse with a bystander’s shirt wrapped around his head.

Jackson reported that he was driving his son to the hospital but pulled into a parking lot because the boy “went unconscious and stopped breathing,” the report states.

The boy remained unresponsive at the hospital, arriving at 12:38 p.m.

Resuscitative efforts were not successful, the report states, and he was pronounced dead at 12:39 p.m.

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Man indicted on manslaughter charge

YOUNGSTOWN — Jacob A. Jackson, 22, of Spring Street in Struthers, was indicted Tuesday on charges of involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering in the Aug. 15 shooting death of his 3-year-old son, Gionni A. Jackson. Jackson is likely to be arraigned in Mahoning County Common Pleas...

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